McWhorter v. Humphreys’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1970
4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Joske v. Irvine · Ormsby v. Ratcliffe · Lee v. International & Great Northern Railway Co. · Stillman v. Hirsch · Larrabee v. Porter
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * As stated in Western Assur. Co. v. Busch, Tex.Civ.App., 203 S.W. 460 , ‘The test as to the conclusiveness of the evidence is, Could it reasonably be supposed that the minds of unprejudiced men of ordinary intelligence might differ about it, either as to the weight to be given to the testimony or to the deduction drawn therefrom ? ’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.